What remains
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:00:19 +0000
AS BuCor figures go, 1,914 convicts were wrongly released for good conduct and “good time.” But as of Monday, 2,221 had surrendered and gone back to their home suite home, behind bars (or none).
What kind of logic rules our public servants’ brains? Going by their own figures, 307 lodgers who were not on the GCTA list chose to return to their barracks or whatever you call their hotel, resort, country club. On second thought, is it a matter of math or logistics? Whatever, change BuCor to stand for Bureau of Corrupted Math.
PMA, Philippine Murderous Academy? The superintendent has quit over the hazing death of a fourth-class cadet and serious injuries inflicted on two others. In one stroke, we’ve lost a young man to a bunch of sadistic murderers and a general who understands, at the very least, the concept of command responsibility. The death of cadet Dormitorio comes two years after law student Atio Castillo was killed during initiation rites by his frat masters. The “educated” killers turned the premier military academy and a prestigious law school into their hunting grounds.
Sogo Hotel on A. Mabini, Malate, Manila suffered a premature but fullblown collapse even without a mild earthquake to shake it to its foundations. It might pique the interest of city engineers to do an ocular of what remains – flattened land – of the ex-hotel’s neighbors that were demolished, one after the other, in the last couple years. At least three buildings within two blocks of each other were destroyed to give way to hungry developers cashing in on the primeness of the land. There’s no vi
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